Re: How Does One force Use of DSA Keys under Linux?
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:31:46AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> Is there a way in Linux to make ssh get the type DSA host keys? I
> presently see the following message when adding a new host to
This is actually a good question, and one to which I couldn't find an
easy answer. As far as I can tell, the solution is not to rely on the
SSH client directly; instead, one needs to use ssh-keyscan with the type
flag:
ssh-keyscan -t dsa <hostname>
In other words, RSA is the default, and you have to do some work to use
DSA instead. I'm not sure this is a bad thing, mind you, but it wasn't
intuitive for me, either.
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